Youth programming
Through hands-on STEM learning, mentorship, and community-centered problem solving, Techbridge Girls helps Black, Latina, and Indigenous girls and gender-expansive youth build confidence, develop technical skills, and see themselves as future innovators, leaders, and changemakers.
Our programs foster belonging, strengthen STEM identity, and connect science, technology, engineering, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and data science to the issues young people care about most.
All Techbridge Girls youth programs are provided free of charge to participating students through schools, afterschool programs, libraries, community organizations, and other youth-serving partners.
STEM Club Resources
Everything that schools, afterschool programs, libraries, community organizations, and other youth-serving partners need to launch a STEM club. Partners receive free curriculum, hands-on STEM kits and materials, facilitator training, implementation support, and ongoing resources.
Choose from a variety of hands-on STEM topics, including artificial intelligence, data science, engineering, coding, environmental science, and more.
Curriculum Spotlight
Grades: 3-8
Our newest STEM curriculum helps girls and gender-expansive youth explore artificial intelligence, data science, and responsible technology design while solving real-world challenges that matter to their communities.
Through hands-on learning and collaborative problem solving, participants build technical skills, strengthen their STEM identity, and discover how they can shape the future of AI.
Additional STEM Club curriculum options include:
Inspire: Earth Engineers, Ignite: Youth Inventors, and ChangeMakers: STEM for Social Change.
Techbridge Girls AI Fest
A free, one-day AI and STEM experience for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 10–14. Hosted in communities across the country, AI Fest brings together girls for hands-on AI activities, interactive STEM challenges, inspiring STEM role models, lunch, T-shirts and swag, and a day designed to spark curiosity, confidence, and belonging.
Impact
In FY25, Techbridge Girls:
- Reached 19,448 youth nationwide
- Supported 2,683 educators and adult learners
- Delivered 599 programs across 29 states
- Girls see themselves reflected in the STEM revolution, and confident in their ability to transform it.
Youth participants reported:
- 92% learned that STEM can drive change in their communities
- 90% gained confidence in their STEM knowledge and skills
- 88% want to continue exploring STEM
- 90% reported a sense of belonging within their program
- 91% learned about STEM careers